[Letter entirely 'in cipher' (code) except for 'Dear Babbage.']
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
[Letter entirely 'in cipher' (code) except for 'Dear Babbage.']
Copy formula and send it to [Richard?] Taylor.
Bad news: a Frenchman has submitted a design for a mathematical machine.
Unable to attend the Astronomical Society meeting. Encloses two papers for him to deal with.
Hopes to see him in town and then they can go to see Joseph Clement. His observations are being spoilt by bad weather.
News concerning Edward Ryan.
Will call on him tomorrow.
Introducing a Mr. Wartam of the Armenian church at Vienna, who knows CB's work on mathematics.
Will call for him on his way to the river.
Will he meet him tomorrow.
Regrets that he will be unable to come and see the experiments as he is laid up with rheumatism.
Is unable to dine with him as his rheumatism is too bad.
Can he lend him Thomas Young's lectures?
Will visit him on Sunday if the weather is suitable.
Invitation to dine with him.
Will he send the drawing of St. Olave's? Has lost his red pocket book.
Sending an 'ill matched pair.' Has got a cold.
Has some certificates for him to sign. Would he read the translation of C. F. Gauss's paper on Friday?
Will be pleased to dine with him. Has been unlucky of late.
Is returning his porisms. Comments on his geometrical language.